Category: Newsletter
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot – February Enhancements
A description of the February install updates applied to WorldCat, including the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot supported by WorldCat Local (WCL).
CDL 2008 Profile Now Available
A PDF Version of CDL's 2008 Profile which highlights "recent accomplishments, comments from our users, and beautiful images from UC's collections" is now available from the CDL homepage.
Mass Digitization Projects Update
2008 was a busy year for our UC Libraries' book digitization activities. This article reviews those efforts.
UC Davis and Internet Archive Make Important Geologic and Water Resources Available
As part of UC's mass digitization scanning efforts, the library of the University of California, Davis, in consultation with the Government Information Librarians (GILS) bibliographers group, and the Internet Archive is currently engaged in two important digitization projects.
UC Libraries and Springer Sign Pilot Agreement for Open Access Journal Publishing
CDL Collections and eScholarship in partnership with the UC Scholarly Communication Officers (SCOs) are piloting a ground-breaking open access publishing arrangement with Springer on behalf of UC faculty.
New Licensed Resources: Blackwell Compass; AGU’s Digital Library
UC campuses now have access to Blackwell Compass and AGU's Digital Library as part of CDL consortial licenses.
Elise Proulx joins CDL’s eScholarship Publishing Program
It is with delight that I announce the arrival of Elise Proulx, eScholarship's new Outreach and Marketing Coordinator. Elise comes to us with a remarkable convergence of extremely relevant and promising professional experiences.
Shared Print issues a call for prospective monograph proposals in Area Studies
CDL Shared Print has issued a call for proposals for prospective Shared Print monograph collections in Area Studies. CDC and CDL Shared Print collaborated to design a new, distributed framework for cooperative monograph collecting which will support the continued development of the UC Libraries' collective collections of international materials.
UC-eLinks Enhancements Coming Early January!
It’s now easier to link directly to an article using UCeLinks.
CDL has recently evaluated a series of enhancements to UC-eLinks centering around the user experience in cases where at least one provider with full text can be identified.
Next Generation Melvyl – Changing of the Guard
With the retirement of Terry Ryan (UCLA) from the Next Generation Melvyl Pilot Implementation Team, a slightly new governance structure is in place for moving the project forward.